>As someone that writes software for the iPod, I can ensure you that it would be impossible for Apple to lock someone out of the hard drive. It is a standard Fat32 mount on all systems.
Uh, actually, it's HFS+ on Mac's...
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist. I carry around a full Mac OS X 10.3.5 install, plus all my system fixin' utilities on my brand-spankin' new 4G 40GB iPod, and I *still* have 35GB free for tunes or other files. I like it so much, I bought my wife one, too! With a PocketDock, I can boot any compatible Mac from it and fix the internal HDD.
But, I also have a nice LaCie DataBank 20GB HDD. Bus-powered off of USB 2.0 and FireWire 400, and it's about the size of an iPod (uses the same 1.8" HDDs). I have the older 16mm thick version, but there's a 13mm 20GB now, and also a 40GB (16mm? Go look it up...). The one I have is also loaded up like my iPod.
My two older LaCie PocketDrives (2.5" 20GB) are also handy, though not as portable, as they have two FireWire ports where the DataBank has only one, so they can be daisy-chained. The PocketDrive is only bus-powered off of FireWire, but comes with an AC/DC convertor for USB usage.
The PocketDrives come up to 80GB, now, I think.
I got my DataBank on clearance at an Apple Store for 200USD. Both the DataBank and the PocketDrive work with Mac's and PC's. I'm going to get another Data Bank so I can keep one formatted FAT and one formatted HFS+.
It's funny, I was just discussing this with a friend the other day. I really think this is the smartest possible move for Sun. It has been becoming increasingly obvious that Sun is seriously lagging behind in processor development. A move to Power and/or PPC would enable Sun to stop sinking money into the pit that is SPARC.
Although it has been pointed out several times here that POWER!=PPC (or Apple), I think Sun would be well served to make certain that any port they do runs on at least the Power Macintosh G5 platform (and any later Apple hardware). This would give Sun access to the many, many existing Apple workstations out there so as to provide Solaris with exposure to the Mac community.
Let's face it, although Mac OS X is a great OS, Apple doesn't really seem to be doing much to chase after the enterprise market, even though they now have what could be an enterprise-class OS (with some better documentation, anyway). The XServe is a fine machine, but it's hardly what I would consider "enterprise", with the possible exception of high-density clustering apps.
Solaris is a very good OS with a huge amount of support in the community, and good installed base at the higher levels. If Sun could get Solaris running on Macs and IBM RS/6K (or whatever they're calling them these days???), it could open up many more doors for them, while still enabling them to possibly design their own brand workstations and desktops on the POWER/PPC platform to compete with both IBM and Apple. That could also mean Mac OS X support on a Sun box.
I can't help thinking that this may be a precursor to shopping Sun out to one of the aforementioned competitors. Apple could use Sun, and vice-versa. An IBM+Sun pairing would probably mean the death of Sun.
I called the local Apple store (Marlton, NJ) at 10:00 am this morning. I was told "we don't have them, and we don't know when we're getting them". Now, the Cherry Hill, NJ area is one of the more affluent communities in the US, so I would have thought that Apple would have made an effort to get them here?
According to the Apple WWW site availability is:
"Instant gratification available at an Apple retail store or an iPod reseller near you."
And Apple's press release states:
"The new iPod is available immediately..."
Oh, well. I just had my favorite Apple VAR order me a 40GB. I even have permission from She Who Must Be Obeyed because She now gets my Original, First Generation, 5GB iPod for her car...
You *are* aware that FairPlay only applies to songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store, right? Apple couldn't give two craps what you do with files you burned from your own CD's...
Take, for example, the fact that you can't download The Lion King on the Internet right now (I mean from Disney, not BitTorrent). I'd guess that this is because Disney can't afford to put such valuable IP on the Internet without being able to control its distribution...yeah, yeah, information wants to be free and whatever, but can you REALLY blame Disney for not liberating something that DESERVEDLY makes them money?
"Deservedly"???
I've got one word for you, pal...Tezuka.
What Disney deserves for "The Lion King" is imprisonment for gross violations of copyright, not to mention morality!
The only people who deserve to make money off of what became one of the most egregious examples of wholesale thievery of someone else's IP in the form of Disney's "The Lion King" are the people who created the original concept.
This from the company that is probably the most vocal proponent of greater IP restrictions! It would only be karma if Disney properties are pirated until Disney can't make a single dime off of any of them!
Disney makes me ill. Sick to my stomach ill. They can rot for all I care...
There are many, many high quality producers of chocolate in the US. Mostly, they are not Mass Market Brands, and some of them compete very favorably with the most prestigious European brands.
Try Lake Champlain from Vermont, Scharffen Berger from California, or MarieBelle from New York. And there are many others...
Oh, yeah, and what actually killed the Cube was poor marketing decisions. The G4 Cube actually cost more than the low-end G4 tower machine.
Had it shipped with a G3 instead and been priced accordingly, it would have sold a lot better. The only advantage the Cube had over the regular desktop machines was form factor (it being smaller). Priced at more than the better performing G4 desktop, it was a complete flop.
I suspect Steve pushed for a G4 processor in it as a status item. Sure, it looked great on a CEO's desk, but otherwise it was incorrectly positioned.
You're obviously either very young, or you have a very short memory...IBM already came out with "desktop" and laptop PPC machines. They were called the Power Series (820/830/850?). They ran Windows NT PPC or AIX, if I remember correctly. Later on it was discovered that it was actually possible to boot Mac OS 8 on them (long after they were discontinued). There are also a few RS6000's that can boot Mac OS (like the F50).
Of course, at the time, Linux PPC was just a pipe dream...
Yes, I know about fink. I have it running on my iBook (mainly so I can use ethereal). I still prefer a simpler system, all things considered...and I like building it myself--it lets me see where the software may or may not work (compiler output).
If I can compile it directly in Mac OS X rather than using fink, I think it's preferable...but of course ethereal is an X11 app, which means it's a PITA to compile directly--better to let the fink folks handle that one!
You formerley at NeXT need to take a long look at all the UI research that Apple spent a lot of money compiling. There are very, very good reasons why Apple chose a one-button mouse and a fixed menu bar.
Can you you say *consistency*? I though you could.
Granted, now that the vast majority of computer users out there are familiar with two-button mice thanks to Microsoft, I think it's time that Apple started using tewo-button mice (I have a nice MS wireless, myself).
But anyone who's bothered to study UI concepts and research can tell you that, despite all the crowing about NeXTSTEP's "great" interface...it's still way behind Macintosh System 7.0, as far as ease-of-use and consistency are concerned.
Don't get me wrong--I loved NeXTSTEP, and I love Mac OS X even more so--but not for it's UI...
I also have to say that the $120 bucks it costs for a Mac OS X copy is worth about 1 hour of my time. Unlike most MS/PC consultants, I prefer my clients to be able to handle basic tasks themselves--something which is much more unlikely to happen using Linux or BSD. It's worth it to my client to spend $120 on Mac OS X rather than have to call me every time some little thing needs to be done, and I don't want to be bothered with stupid computer tricks, anyway.
I'd rather my clients hire me for the important things--like migrating email systems.
I repurposed hardware owned by a client that was previously running CE Software's QuickMail Pro 2.1 under Mac OS 9.2.2.
The new server is replacing another G3 box that originally replaced the QuickMail server. The other G3 is running mostly the same stuff as the new box (Sendmail 8.12.10, Squirrel 1.4.1, etc, etc.), except that the UW-IMAP I used the first time around proved incapable of handling the extreme email load of this particular client (can you say 50MB+ mailboxes???).
So, as you can see, it didn't cost me anything--and it would have cost the client even more money to replace hardware they already owned. Hell, the price of the Adaptec 29160N card and the Ultra3 SCSI LVD drives was more than the freaking G3, not to mention the price of an old Windows box and a new SCSI card so they could still use the expensive server-class SCSI drives...
This is a Mac job. The only PC's around in this installation run a subscription program...and the server it runs on is a nice Dell that cost over eight large...so don't talk to me about "cheap" PC's!
I think it's great that the folks at Yellow Dog are keeping Linux alive on the PPC platform; however, that doesn't change the fact that the PPC releases are light-years behind the i386 releases. If I'm going to use Linux, I'm going to use it on properly supported hardware, namely a high-end Intel-based box.
The cool features I was referring to are all of the other things I get with Apple hardware/software...like that FireWire support you were talking about--not to mention the consistent GUI (granted, not as good as Mac OS 9, but light-years ahead of anything on Linux).
I can't stress enough the power of good FireWire support that helps me support my clients in a fraction of the time it would take without the ability to reliably hook up an external, bus-powered hard drive.
And actually, the only thing that bogs down Mac OS X on older hardware is the video chipsets. The B&W I'm using has a Rage 128 Pro in it. This is supported by Quartz Extreme and makes for a fast enough GUI. Not to mention the Ultra3 SCSI LVD drives in it. I wouldn't try this with a bondi 233MHz 1st gen iMac...
One question though--if you can't afford one, how do you even know just how good it is? Believe me, if you need those features, you can't afford *not* to have a good Mac...
Well, I just spent the better part of my day building a new mail server.
It's a Power Mac G3 B&W running Mac OS X 10.2.8 (6R73), with Sendmail 8.12.11, Cyrus SASL 2.1.15, Cyrus IMAPD 2.2.3, GNU Mailman 2.1.4, SquirrelMail 1.4.2, Berkeley DB 4.2.52, etc, etc--all downloaded and compiled from scratch with GNU GCC 3.3 (except Sendmail, which doesn't work with 3.3, so I used 3.1 for that).
*And* all of this works with SMTP AUTH through SASL linked through PAM to the NetInfo database. I've done this on Mac OS X 10.3 as well.
I could do this on Linux, too, I suppose, but then I wouldn't also get all the really cool features of Mac OS X or Apple's really cool hardware.
BTW, just saying "Linux" is kind of misleading. Even if you only looked at the major distro's, you're still talking about several different types of systems that have significant compatibility problem between them. So, if you're going to lump all of these into one big "market share", I'd say why not lump all the commercial *NIXes together? I'm sure AIX, IRIX, Solaris, etc could add a percentage point or two to Apple's share, at the least. Hell, you could even toss in all the *BSD's, for that matter.
The bottom line is, no matter what flavor you feel like using, it's all basically a (nearly) POSIX compliant system under the hood.
Just so long as it's not more Windows...
I was listening to NPR briefly today with some silly girl from Wired talking about the MS source code leak. Doesn't it amaze you how much people are talking about hackers taking advantage of the source code to attack Windows?
Don't these people have any memories at all? I would venture to guess that *none* of the writers of the very well publicized virus attacks of the past few years needed access to the MS source code to effectively attack a large portion of the world's Windows systems. Can you say MyDoom? Melissa?
Bah! Windows is a plague on humanity. Hopefully, the combined power of Linux, UNIX, and BSD, especially with the help of Apple, will wipe this incontinent excuse for security off the face of the world once and for all.
Oh for God's sake, when will you people bother to actually read an honest performance comparison and then price out equivalent systems?
Go ahead, take any performance comparision between current (or past) Mac's and PC's. Then go to the Apple online store and the Dell/HP/whatever top-shelf brand PC mfg. you like.
You will find than generally, the Mac's come out slightly *cheaper* than the PC's.
The "Mac's are sooo expensive/overpriced/not-worth-the-money" argument hasn't held water for years.
And as far as your "Athlon 64" argument, by which I take it you mean the Opteron, you're still wrong. The G5, clock for clock, is faster than the Opteron in the vast majority of computing tasks running today's software. Go read it on Bare Feats.
Looks like you are firmly in the grasp of your own "Head Up My Ass" Reality Distortion Field.
So, I think that by this time next year (and hopefully that actually means about 10 months from now, so Apple can actually get the damn things out the door *BEFORE* the Holiday season...), we'll actually get the iPod that we should have had in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, I love the iPod, and I actually have an original 5GB unit (which I did *not* pay full price for).
As we all know, HDDs don't go down in price, they just get bigger, because it costs about the same amount of money to produce a unit regardless of capacity. That's why the newer iPods with bigger drives cost the same as the original while having double the capacity. The iPod would be cheaper if Apple could find a way to build it cheaper while still maintaining the design goals.
So I'm thinking that if we see a ~2GB ePod/iPod Jr. at MWSF next week, then by next year, we should be seeing a ~5GB unit for the same price. By that time, Toshiba should have ramped up the new 1" drives to double the capacity or more.
I do think the predictions of ~100USD are maybe a bit optimistic. For what you're getting, it sounds to me like ~150-200USD is more likely. As in $149 for a 1GB model, and $199 for a 2GB...then next year we might see 2GB and 5GB models at the same prices, while the iPods step up even further in features and capacity at *their* same price points.
Personally, I'd have no trouble justifying $199 for a 2GB iPod, as long as it retains the same feature set as the current iPods do. (Read: FireWire drive capability).
Of course, what I'd really like to see, as a musician, is a multi-track iPod Studio about the size of a VHS tape with the inputs of a Digidesign Mbox (mmm...Focusrite). Since Apple owns eLogic, this shouldn't be too hard. Think of a cross between a Digidesign Mbox and a Digi 002 (FireWire), only made by Apple.
I've been using Tenba Computer Travellers for a few years now. They run about $150-200 if I remember correctly, and are also designed for carrying photo equipment as well. Not that *I've* ever paid that much...my first one came from Egghead when they went out of business for $34.95, and the next two I bought at the Trenton Computer Festival for $33 bucks each. One of them I haven't even used--it's being saved for when my current main bag gets too beat up to show to clients. The original one is pretty well worn, but it's still being used to carry my Sony laptop. The only complaint I have about the Tenba bags is the nylon scratches up the iBook plastics, so I, like a previous poster, got a Sony neoprene sleeve (made for the 505 series, I think) that is a perfect fit for a 12" iBook and thin enough to fit in the Tenba insert.
The Tenba inserts are bombproof. The bags also have backpack conversion straps available. Mine are all the C416 model, 16x12 inches, 4-7 in. deep. Eventually, I'll switch to the C416-9, which is 7-9 inches deep. The standard models are ballistic nylon, but they are also available with leather trim, or in all-leather. They also make a 13-14" wide model and an 18" wide model, I believe.
http://www.tenba.com/camera/computerstealth.htm
The web site is a little hard to navigate, but check in the photo and computer product sections, as well as the "for Apple" section.
Here's a link to the page which links all the products I mentioned...
http://www.tenba.com/select.htm
I especially like the umbrella straps, and the padded pockets for my HP48 calculator, my LaCie PocketDrives, and other various bits...
No, you're all still wrong. The only case where one would impact the pavement at the same speed of travel prior to crashing is if one were travelling in a direction perpendicular to the pavement. A similar situation might occur if one were to hit a vertical wall, but that's not what the original post was asking.
Obviously, none of you ride motorcycles, or you would know this.
When falling off a motorcycle, one's head falls approximately 5-6 feet (to keep the math simple, obviously different bikes/people have the rider's head at different heights). This equates to a vertical vector of about 13 mph., which is why helmets are designed/tested at this speed of impact.
The horizontal velocity vector plays, relatively, a very, very small part in the damage caused to the head, assuming that the rider is wearing a helmet--not that I want to turn this into an argument about helmet-wearing/laws.
As for myself, the last time I went down, I didn't even hit my head. At least I didn't have to buy a new helmet! My older brother, who was on the back at the time, put a nice big dent in his helmet.
I ended up with a big bruise on my ass/thigh (where I hit the ground), and a 1/4" diameter hole in my AeroStich/Rider Wearhouse suit. My brother scraped his wrist between his glove and leather jacket.
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>As someone that writes software for the iPod, I can ensure you that it would be impossible for Apple to lock someone out of the hard drive. It is a standard Fat32 mount on all systems.
Uh, actually, it's HFS+ on Mac's...
Sorry, I just couldn't resist. I carry around a full Mac OS X 10.3.5 install, plus all my system fixin' utilities on my brand-spankin' new 4G 40GB iPod, and I *still* have 35GB free for tunes or other files. I like it so much, I bought my wife one, too! With a PocketDock, I can boot any compatible Mac from it and fix the internal HDD.
But, I also have a nice LaCie DataBank 20GB HDD. Bus-powered off of USB 2.0 and FireWire 400, and it's about the size of an iPod (uses the same 1.8" HDDs). I have the older 16mm thick version, but there's a 13mm 20GB now, and also a 40GB (16mm? Go look it up...). The one I have is also loaded up like my iPod.
My two older LaCie PocketDrives (2.5" 20GB) are also handy, though not as portable, as they have two FireWire ports where the DataBank has only one, so they can be daisy-chained. The PocketDrive is only bus-powered off of FireWire, but comes with an AC/DC convertor for USB usage.
The PocketDrives come up to 80GB, now, I think.
I got my DataBank on clearance at an Apple Store for 200USD. Both the DataBank and the PocketDrive work with Mac's and PC's. I'm going to get another Data Bank so I can keep one formatted FAT and one formatted HFS+.
It's funny, I was just discussing this with a friend the other day. I really think this is the smartest possible move for Sun. It has been becoming increasingly obvious that Sun is seriously lagging behind in processor development. A move to Power and/or PPC would enable Sun to stop sinking money into the pit that is SPARC.
Although it has been pointed out several times here that POWER!=PPC (or Apple), I think Sun would be well served to make certain that any port they do runs on at least the Power Macintosh G5 platform (and any later Apple hardware). This would give Sun access to the many, many existing Apple workstations out there so as to provide Solaris with exposure to the Mac community.
Let's face it, although Mac OS X is a great OS, Apple doesn't really seem to be doing much to chase after the enterprise market, even though they now have what could be an enterprise-class OS (with some better documentation, anyway). The XServe is a fine machine, but it's hardly what I would consider "enterprise", with the possible exception of high-density clustering apps.
Solaris is a very good OS with a huge amount of support in the community, and good installed base at the higher levels. If Sun could get Solaris running on Macs and IBM RS/6K (or whatever they're calling them these days???), it could open up many more doors for them, while still enabling them to possibly design their own brand workstations and desktops on the POWER/PPC platform to compete with both IBM and Apple. That could also mean Mac OS X support on a Sun box.
I can't help thinking that this may be a precursor to shopping Sun out to one of the aforementioned competitors. Apple could use Sun, and vice-versa. An IBM+Sun pairing would probably mean the death of Sun.
I called the local Apple store (Marlton, NJ) at 10:00 am this morning. I was told "we don't have them, and we don't know when we're getting them". Now, the Cherry Hill, NJ area is one of the more affluent communities in the US, so I would have thought that Apple would have made an effort to get them here?
According to the Apple WWW site availability is:
"Instant gratification available at an Apple retail store or an iPod reseller near you."
And Apple's press release states:
"The new iPod is available immediately..."
Oh, well. I just had my favorite Apple VAR order me a 40GB. I even have permission from She Who Must Be Obeyed because She now gets my Original, First Generation, 5GB iPod for her car...
You *are* aware that FairPlay only applies to songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store, right? Apple couldn't give two craps what you do with files you burned from your own CD's...
"Deservedly"???
I've got one word for you, pal...Tezuka.
What Disney deserves for "The Lion King" is imprisonment for gross violations of copyright, not to mention morality!
The only people who deserve to make money off of what became one of the most egregious examples of wholesale thievery of someone else's IP in the form of Disney's "The Lion King" are the people who created the original concept.
This from the company that is probably the most vocal proponent of greater IP restrictions! It would only be karma if Disney properties are pirated until Disney can't make a single dime off of any of them!
Disney makes me ill. Sick to my stomach ill. They can rot for all I care...
There are many, many high quality producers of chocolate in the US. Mostly, they are not Mass Market Brands, and some of them compete very favorably with the most prestigious European brands.
Try Lake Champlain from Vermont, Scharffen Berger from California, or MarieBelle from New York. And there are many others...
Take a look here: Chocophile.com's C-List
Besides, Godiva isn't bad--it's actually quite good, but there *are* better chocolates in the world.
Actually, I, for one, think she'd make a great candidate for a Pulitzer Prize, or a National Geographic Medal, or perhaps other honors.
Oh, yeah, and what actually killed the Cube was poor marketing decisions. The G4 Cube actually cost more than the low-end G4 tower machine.
Had it shipped with a G3 instead and been priced accordingly, it would have sold a lot better. The only advantage the Cube had over the regular desktop machines was form factor (it being smaller). Priced at more than the better performing G4 desktop, it was a complete flop.
I suspect Steve pushed for a G4 processor in it as a status item. Sure, it looked great on a CEO's desk, but otherwise it was incorrectly positioned.
You're obviously either very young, or you have a very short memory...IBM already came out with "desktop" and laptop PPC machines. They were called the Power Series (820/830/850?). They ran Windows NT PPC or AIX, if I remember correctly. Later on it was discovered that it was actually possible to boot Mac OS 8 on them (long after they were discontinued). There are also a few RS6000's that can boot Mac OS (like the F50).
Of course, at the time, Linux PPC was just a pipe dream...
Yes, I know about fink. I have it running on my iBook (mainly so I can use ethereal). I still prefer a simpler system, all things considered...and I like building it myself--it lets me see where the software may or may not work (compiler output).
If I can compile it directly in Mac OS X rather than using fink, I think it's preferable...but of course ethereal is an X11 app, which means it's a PITA to compile directly--better to let the fink folks handle that one!
You formerley at NeXT need to take a long look at all the UI research that Apple spent a lot of money compiling. There are very, very good reasons why Apple chose a one-button mouse and a fixed menu bar.
Can you you say *consistency*? I though you could.
Granted, now that the vast majority of computer users out there are familiar with two-button mice thanks to Microsoft, I think it's time that Apple started using tewo-button mice (I have a nice MS wireless, myself).
But anyone who's bothered to study UI concepts and research can tell you that, despite all the crowing about NeXTSTEP's "great" interface...it's still way behind Macintosh System 7.0, as far as ease-of-use and consistency are concerned.
Don't get me wrong--I loved NeXTSTEP, and I love Mac OS X even more so--but not for it's UI...
I also have to say that the $120 bucks it costs for a Mac OS X copy is worth about 1 hour of my time. Unlike most MS/PC consultants, I prefer my clients to be able to handle basic tasks themselves--something which is much more unlikely to happen using Linux or BSD. It's worth it to my client to spend $120 on Mac OS X rather than have to call me every time some little thing needs to be done, and I don't want to be bothered with stupid computer tricks, anyway.
I'd rather my clients hire me for the important things--like migrating email systems.
You fucking PC guys slay me.
Hmmm...
I'll have to check that out--but I haven't had any problems with Squirrel's performance. Thanks for the tip!
Actually, no...
I repurposed hardware owned by a client that was previously running CE Software's QuickMail Pro 2.1 under Mac OS 9.2.2.
The new server is replacing another G3 box that originally replaced the QuickMail server. The other G3 is running mostly the same stuff as the new box (Sendmail 8.12.10, Squirrel 1.4.1, etc, etc.), except that the UW-IMAP I used the first time around proved incapable of handling the extreme email load of this particular client (can you say 50MB+ mailboxes???).
So, as you can see, it didn't cost me anything--and it would have cost the client even more money to replace hardware they already owned. Hell, the price of the Adaptec 29160N card and the Ultra3 SCSI LVD drives was more than the freaking G3, not to mention the price of an old Windows box and a new SCSI card so they could still use the expensive server-class SCSI drives...
This is a Mac job. The only PC's around in this installation run a subscription program...and the server it runs on is a nice Dell that cost over eight large...so don't talk to me about "cheap" PC's!
I think it's great that the folks at Yellow Dog are keeping Linux alive on the PPC platform; however, that doesn't change the fact that the PPC releases are light-years behind the i386 releases. If I'm going to use Linux, I'm going to use it on properly supported hardware, namely a high-end Intel-based box.
The cool features I was referring to are all of the other things I get with Apple hardware/software...like that FireWire support you were talking about--not to mention the consistent GUI (granted, not as good as Mac OS 9, but light-years ahead of anything on Linux).
I can't stress enough the power of good FireWire support that helps me support my clients in a fraction of the time it would take without the ability to reliably hook up an external, bus-powered hard drive.
And actually, the only thing that bogs down Mac OS X on older hardware is the video chipsets. The B&W I'm using has a Rage 128 Pro in it. This is supported by Quartz Extreme and makes for a fast enough GUI. Not to mention the Ultra3 SCSI LVD drives in it. I wouldn't try this with a bondi 233MHz 1st gen iMac...
One question though--if you can't afford one, how do you even know just how good it is? Believe me, if you need those features, you can't afford *not* to have a good Mac...
Well, I just spent the better part of my day building a new mail server.
It's a Power Mac G3 B&W running Mac OS X 10.2.8 (6R73), with Sendmail 8.12.11, Cyrus SASL 2.1.15, Cyrus IMAPD 2.2.3, GNU Mailman 2.1.4, SquirrelMail 1.4.2, Berkeley DB 4.2.52, etc, etc--all downloaded and compiled from scratch with GNU GCC 3.3 (except Sendmail, which doesn't work with 3.3, so I used 3.1 for that).
*And* all of this works with SMTP AUTH through SASL linked through PAM to the NetInfo database. I've done this on Mac OS X 10.3 as well.
I could do this on Linux, too, I suppose, but then I wouldn't also get all the really cool features of Mac OS X or Apple's really cool hardware.
BTW, just saying "Linux" is kind of misleading. Even if you only looked at the major distro's, you're still talking about several different types of systems that have significant compatibility problem between them. So, if you're going to lump all of these into one big "market share", I'd say why not lump all the commercial *NIXes together? I'm sure AIX, IRIX, Solaris, etc could add a percentage point or two to Apple's share, at the least. Hell, you could even toss in all the *BSD's, for that matter.
The bottom line is, no matter what flavor you feel like using, it's all basically a (nearly) POSIX compliant system under the hood.
Just so long as it's not more Windows...
I was listening to NPR briefly today with some silly girl from Wired talking about the MS source code leak. Doesn't it amaze you how much people are talking about hackers taking advantage of the source code to attack Windows?
Don't these people have any memories at all? I would venture to guess that *none* of the writers of the very well publicized virus attacks of the past few years needed access to the MS source code to effectively attack a large portion of the world's Windows systems. Can you say MyDoom? Melissa?
Bah! Windows is a plague on humanity. Hopefully, the combined power of Linux, UNIX, and BSD, especially with the help of Apple, will wipe this incontinent excuse for security off the face of the world once and for all.
To that list I would have added:
1. Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel's Avatar"
2. Sharon Shinn's "Angelica"
3. Ursula Le Guin's "Changing Planes"
Oh for God's sake, when will you people bother to actually read an honest performance comparison and then price out equivalent systems?
Go ahead, take any performance comparision between current (or past) Mac's and PC's. Then go to the Apple online store and the Dell/HP/whatever top-shelf brand PC mfg. you like.
You will find than generally, the Mac's come out slightly *cheaper* than the PC's.
The "Mac's are sooo expensive/overpriced/not-worth-the-money" argument hasn't held water for years.
And as far as your "Athlon 64" argument, by which I take it you mean the Opteron, you're still wrong. The G5, clock for clock, is faster than the Opteron in the vast majority of computing tasks running today's software. Go read it on Bare Feats.
Looks like you are firmly in the grasp of your own "Head Up My Ass" Reality Distortion Field.
So, I think that by this time next year (and hopefully that actually means about 10 months from now, so Apple can actually get the damn things out the door *BEFORE* the Holiday season...), we'll actually get the iPod that we should have had in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, I love the iPod, and I actually have an original 5GB unit (which I did *not* pay full price for).
As we all know, HDDs don't go down in price, they just get bigger, because it costs about the same amount of money to produce a unit regardless of capacity. That's why the newer iPods with bigger drives cost the same as the original while having double the capacity. The iPod would be cheaper if Apple could find a way to build it cheaper while still maintaining the design goals.
So I'm thinking that if we see a ~2GB ePod/iPod Jr. at MWSF next week, then by next year, we should be seeing a ~5GB unit for the same price. By that time, Toshiba should have ramped up the new 1" drives to double the capacity or more.
I do think the predictions of ~100USD are maybe a bit optimistic. For what you're getting, it sounds to me like ~150-200USD is more likely. As in $149 for a 1GB model, and $199 for a 2GB...then next year we might see 2GB and 5GB models at the same prices, while the iPods step up even further in features and capacity at *their* same price points.
Personally, I'd have no trouble justifying $199 for a 2GB iPod, as long as it retains the same feature set as the current iPods do. (Read: FireWire drive capability).
Of course, what I'd really like to see, as a musician, is a multi-track iPod Studio about the size of a VHS tape with the inputs of a Digidesign Mbox (mmm...Focusrite). Since Apple owns eLogic, this shouldn't be too hard. Think of a cross between a Digidesign Mbox and a Digi 002 (FireWire), only made by Apple.
Don't all the RISC-OS machines run ARM (as in Acorn RISC Machine) processors? Doesn't Apple still own a goodly chunk of ARM?
Or did I miss something?
I've been using Tenba Computer Travellers for a few years now. They run about $150-200 if I remember correctly, and are also designed for carrying photo equipment as well. Not that *I've* ever paid that much...my first one came from Egghead when they went out of business for $34.95, and the next two I bought at the Trenton Computer Festival for $33 bucks each. One of them I haven't even used--it's being saved for when my current main bag gets too beat up to show to clients. The original one is pretty well worn, but it's still being used to carry my Sony laptop. The only complaint I have about the Tenba bags is the nylon scratches up the iBook plastics, so I, like a previous poster, got a Sony neoprene sleeve (made for the 505 series, I think) that is a perfect fit for a 12" iBook and thin enough to fit in the Tenba insert.
The Tenba inserts are bombproof. The bags also have backpack conversion straps available. Mine are all the C416 model, 16x12 inches, 4-7 in. deep. Eventually, I'll switch to the C416-9, which is 7-9 inches deep. The standard models are ballistic nylon, but they are also available with leather trim, or in all-leather. They also make a 13-14" wide model and an 18" wide model, I believe.
http://www.tenba.com/camera/computerstealth.htm
The web site is a little hard to navigate, but check in the photo and computer product sections, as well as the "for Apple" section.
Here's a link to the page which links all the products I mentioned...
http://www.tenba.com/select.htm
I especially like the umbrella straps, and the padded pockets for my HP48 calculator, my LaCie PocketDrives, and other various bits...
No, you're all still wrong. The only case where one would impact the pavement at the same speed of travel prior to crashing is if one were travelling in a direction perpendicular to the pavement. A similar situation might occur if one were to hit a vertical wall, but that's not what the original post was asking.
Obviously, none of you ride motorcycles, or you would know this.
When falling off a motorcycle, one's head falls approximately 5-6 feet (to keep the math simple, obviously different bikes/people have the rider's head at different heights). This equates to a vertical vector of about 13 mph., which is why helmets are designed/tested at this speed of impact.
The horizontal velocity vector plays, relatively, a very, very small part in the damage caused to the head, assuming that the rider is wearing a helmet--not that I want to turn this into an argument about helmet-wearing/laws.
Glad to see you survived.
As for myself, the last time I went down, I didn't even hit my head. At least I didn't have to buy a new helmet! My older brother, who was on the back at the time, put a nice big dent in his helmet.
I ended up with a big bruise on my ass/thigh (where I hit the ground), and a 1/4" diameter hole in my AeroStich/Rider Wearhouse suit. My brother scraped his wrist between his glove and leather jacket.
The bike? $800 worth of damage...arrgh.
No, it wouldn't. The math is easy, so figure it out for yourself.